Essential Question

How do society's stereotypes and assumptions affect our sense of self worth?

Standards

CCSS RI 12-6 Determine an author's purpose and analyze the author's use of rhetoric to develop this purpose.
CCSS RI 12-1 Students will draw inferences from the text and support with text evidence.

Bell Work: Opening Adjective

In the model and the scrambled list, identify the opening adjective. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence parts to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the opening adjective.



MODEL: Speechless, Bryson scanned the small living room, frantically.

-Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception



a. hopefully

b. spotted the soft inviting sofa

c. Kendra

d. uncomfortable

Checking In Online

Let's check out some thoughts from the online text and discussion from Thursday and Friday.

Putting It All Together

Use your texts from this unit, thoughts from our class discussions, and your own experience to carefully complete the graphic organizer. How would you put an essay together that responds to the prompt:

How do society's stereotypes and assumptions affect our personal identities and sense of self worth?

Rules for Thesis Statements:

1. One Sentence!
2. Answer the prompt!
3. Be Specific!
4. Concentrate on LANGUAGE CONTROL! (grammar, spelling, usage, vocabulary, formal language, wording, etc..)

Write your thesis statement on a notecard. Turn it in on the Exit Pass board.